Archive | By Sight
Learning by watching others do.
Bow Finger Flow
This is great stuff to take your playing to the next level! It might not be exciting stuff to watch, I know… but I supply it by request. It seems that some students benefit from visually seeing me bow this way. Keeping all your joints moving and flexible is most
Electric Violin pics
Cool violin pics! See also our Big Bang Fiddle Jam Book images page too! We’ll start with some of our header logo pics, then move on (below) to other violin pics I just think are cool! These first 4 are all instruments I made for our sister site www.OutlawFiddle.com
Tatering Level 4 – chopping technique
By fiddlejamman on June 4, 2013 in “Tater”, Artist Level, Bluegrass Fiddle, BowTek, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, Cornerstone Styles, Country, HipHop, Jamming 104, Lesson List, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Rock, Section/Title Pages, Style Studies, The Chop, VioTek
Tatering Level 4 – chopping technique. I know, most materials at Fiddle Jam Institute are presented in a nice and simple 3 level system, but “chopping” seems to need its own level separate from the rest. Simply explained, but more difficult to do, chopping has it roots in Bluegrass (
Tatering level 3 – chord tone double stops
By fiddlejamman on June 4, 2013 in “Tater”, A-toodz Level 3, Artist Level, Bluegrass Fiddle, Blues, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, C major, Cajun-Zydeco, Cornerstone Styles, Country, Fiddler’s Tab, Folk Fiddle, G major, Gigger Level, Isms, Skisms & Hybrids, Jamming 102, jamming 103, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Major Scale, Memphis Country Blues, MixoBluesian Scale, Mixolydian Mode, Music Mechanics, Note Name – Finger Number, Old Time Fiddle, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Rock, Section/Title Pages, Staff Notation, Style Studies, Swamp Fiddle
Level 3 is a bit more tricky, technically speaking. This involves including other notes from the chords as they pass in a progression… not just necessarily the tonic (name of chord) and it’s fifth anymore. This means that you’ll have to learn some (simple don’t worry) Music Theory or Music
Musical Priest – Irish/Celtic tune
By fiddlejamman on May 27, 2013 in “Tater”, Aeolian Mode, B minor, BowTek, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, By Sight, Celtic-Irish-Fiddle, Cornerstone Styles, Country, Fiddle Tunes, Fiddler’s Tab, Gigger Level, Isms, Skisms & Hybrids, Jamming 102, Lesson List, Master Class, Minor Scale, Music Mechanics, Note Name – Finger Number, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies, The Chop, VioTek
Being a metaphysically oriented guy, I kind of think of myself as always aspiring to be a musical priest of sorts. A priest of jamming! ;~) This tune caught my eye, just for its title at first, but I’ve grow to love it. My students seem to like it
Slur Exercises – Essential Elements Book 1 Pg. 29
By fiddlejamman on April 5, 2013 in Beginner Violin, BowTek, By Sight, Jammer Level, Lesson List, Music Mechanics, Staff Notation, Teacher Training, VioTek
This is a very well written page of exercises for training your muscles how to do slurs. It puts your arm “through the paces” quite well. If you’ve only fiddled so far, you might not be used to slurs, which, by the way, are simply when you keep your bow